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Dispersal And Sampling Of The Wheat Stem Sawfly, Cephus Cintus Norton, (Hymenoptera: Cephidae), Christopher Mccullough
Dispersal And Sampling Of The Wheat Stem Sawfly, Cephus Cintus Norton, (Hymenoptera: Cephidae), Christopher Mccullough
Department of Entomology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus Norton (Hymenoptera: Cephidae), is a serious insect pest of wheat, Triticum aestivum L., in the northern central Great Plains. The sawfly has been a pest of wheat in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada since the early 20th century. It was first detected in Nebraska winter wheat in the early 1990s, in Scotts Bluff County. The sawfly has since spread throughout the Nebraska Panhandle region and become a pest of serious concern. To gain a better understanding of the sawfly in Nebraska, investigations on the emergence, dispersal, and sampling of the sawfly were conducted. …